Riding wall is where the building

It is a traditional residential building in Jiangnan.

"Horse-riding wall", also known as "wind and fire wall", is a typical Huizhou architectural style.

In the villages where people live in clusters, the density of residential buildings is high, which is not conducive to fire prevention conflicts are more prominent, and the high horse-head wall, in the event of a fire in the neighboring homes, plays a role in isolating the fire source, so the horse-head wall is also known as the sealing fire wall.

Artistic Characteristics:

Horse-head wall is a traditional residential building in Jiangnan, China, the roof is divided into front and rear slopes by a horizontal ridge in the center, the left and right side of the wall or flush with the roof, or higher than the roof, the use of the horse-head wall, the two sides of the wall is higher than the roof, and along the roof slope iteratively down to the horizontal ladder, unlike the general mountain wall, the top is an isosceles triangle, the bottom is an isosceles triangle, the top is a isosceles triangle, the top is a isosceles triangle, the bottom is a isosceles triangle, the bottom is a isosceles triangle. Above is an isosceles triangle, below is a rectangle, is an important feature of the traditional residential architecture in Jiangnan.

Horsehead wall height staggered, generally two-stacked, or three-stacked, larger homes, because of the front and rear halls, horsehead wall can be stacked up to five stacks, commonly known as the "five mountains towards the sky".

From the appearance of quite a style, and therefore not only is one of the common format of traditional residential architecture in Jiangnan, China, there was a "brick small tile horse-head wall, corridor hanging down the lattice window," said to summarize the traditional residential architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Jiangnan. The beautiful horse-head wall is mostly seen in the countryside, and in the busy city, the horse-head wall is extremely rare and precious.